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SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 



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Quite an interesting and extensive series of Ordovician and Silurian 

 fossils were collected at the town of Stony Mountain, about 15 miles 

 from Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway near Glenogle was such " good 

 going " that the fossils were carried in hundred-pound lots. The 

 hunting coat as well as the knapsack (fig. 48) are filled with rocks 

 which are crowded with the fossil remains of minute and ancient 

 animals. 



BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE MOUNT ROBSON REGION IN THE 

 CANADIAN ROCKIES 



Through the courtesy of the Canadian Government and of Dr. 

 A. O. Wheeler, president of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Smith- 



Fig. 49. — Mount Robson, British Columbia. Photograph by Hollister, 191 1. 



sonian Institution was enabled, in the summer of 191 1, to send a small 

 party of naturalists to accompany Dr. Wheeler on his topographical 

 survey of the British Columbia and Alberta boundary line and the 

 Mount Robson region. The party started in June, and returned in 

 October, 191 1. 



Mr. N. Hollister, of the United States National Museum, natu- 

 ralist in charge of the party, reported on his return the expedition 

 had been very successful in obtaining a fairly complete collection, 

 covering practically all the birds and mammals inhabiting this pre- 

 viously unworked territory, together with many insects and botanical 

 specimens. The party of naturalists consisted of four members. 



